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Title: Green Mantidfly
Post by: The15thMember on April 19, 2023, 04:34:50 pm

My sister found one of these yesterday.  I wouldn't have known what it was if I hadn't just read about them the previous day in an issue of 2 Million Blossoms (RIP  :sad:).  It's a green mantidfly.  They look like little praying mantises with lacewing wings, and they ambush hunt with their raptorial forelegs just like mantises do.  They aren't mantises though, they are actually in the same order as lacewings, dobsonflies, ant-lions, and such.  Anyone else ever seen one?
   

Title: Re: Green Mantidfly
Post by: BeeMaster2 on April 19, 2023, 09:46:59 pm

Reagan,
I didn?t even know that they existed.
Jim Altmiller

Title: Re: Green Mantidfly
Post by: Michael Bush on April 20, 2023, 06:14:17 am

I have never seen one and this is the first I have heard of them.  Very interesting.  I'm sure they are good to have around.